{"id":2181,"date":"2007-03-08T09:25:16","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T17:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/03\/every_good_development_deserves_a_holdout.html"},"modified":"2007-03-08T09:25:16","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T17:25:16","slug":"every_good_deve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/03\/every_good_deve.html","title":{"rendered":"Every Good Development Deserves A Holdout"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the same way as the great cities have pie-shaped buildings<\/a>, every development worth its salt has at least one quirky holdout that serves to humble ego-driven architects and pointy-headed planners. So will Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project get its very own version of Hurley’s<\/a>? The courts are paving the way for that possibility<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A property owner threatened by the Atlantic Yards project enjoyed a victory after a judge ruled that two of his leases were improperly acquired by the developer, Forest City Ratner.<\/p>\n

Property owner Henry Weinstein can keep his six-story building and a parking lot on Carlton Ave., Supreme Court judge Ira Harkavy ruled Tuesday.<\/p>\n

But it was unclear how the ruling would affect the project, which broke ground last month.<\/p>\n

“The leases in question clearly and unambiguously required tenants to first obtain the written consent of the landlords before any assignment of the leases,” Harkavy ruled in an 18-page decision invalidating both leases.<\/p>\n

Weinstein leased his property to Brooklyn developer Shaya Boymelgreen in 1999, but he didn’t expect Boymelgreen to sell the leases to Forest City Ratner, Weinstein said.<\/p>\n

Weinstein, a critic of the Atlantic Yards project, never gave consent to the deal between Boymelgreen and Ratner, which would have allowed the latter to hold onto the leases until 2048.<\/p>\n

“We believed from the beginning that Ratner and Boymelgreen had no right to do what they did, so this decision is no surprise,” said Candace Carponter, a member of the opposition group Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn. “As far as I’m concerned, this decision is unassailable upon appeal.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Location Scout: Atlantic Yards<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See also: Architectural Holdouts<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the same way as the great cities have pie-shaped buildings, every development worth its salt has at least one quirky holdout that serves to humble ego-driven architects and pointy-headed planners. So will Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project get its very own version of Hurley’s? The courts are paving the way for that possibility: A […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-brooklyn","category-insert_muted_trumpets_sad_wahwah_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}